About me

Before that role (which I commenced in late March 2017) I was a correspondent for The Economist for twenty years–in London, Hong Kong, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles and Berlin. (Here is a teeny-weeny sample of what I wrote for The Economist.)

I started this site in 2008, while I was writing my first book, titled Hannibal and Me and published in January 2012. The book is about triumph and disaster in the lives of historical figures, told in a way that makes you see yourself in the stories. Here is a synopsis, here is a conversation about it, and here are reviews.